Around 50 members of Organizing for Action (OFA) marched half a mile down SR54 Saturday afternoon to House Speaker Will Weatherford’s office in Wesley Chapel with signs reading “Where’s there’s a Will, there’s no Way,” and “Patients over Politics.”
They were there to protest Weatherford’s outspoken advocacy against accepting the Medicaid expansion plan offered by the federal government — a key part of the Affordable Care Act — that would pay all costs for Florida to expand their Medicaid rolls by up to a million people for three years, and then a 90-10 federal/state match after that.
Weatherford has said that he is opposed to Medicaid expansion because he believes "it crosses the line of the proper role of government."
